Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] to their [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While they were at the mercy of erratic weather or changes in the migration routes of reindeer , so that they might suffer famine from time to time , they were generally well fed , more or less comfortably adapted to their environment , and enjoyed a surplus of resources sufficient to allow expenditure of time on the decoration of clothing and utensils on story-telling and dancing . |
| 2 | Of course , most of these assertions are merely matters of opinion , often rather wild opinion , for one ca n't help wondering just how much Messrs Ashdown , Smith and Brown really know about the ‘ other European countries ’ they so blithely summoned to their aid . |
| 3 | They are so strongly committed to their unionism that they are prepared to go some way towards moving some of their evangelical principles into the area of private life and personal choice , rather than alienate non-evangelical unionists . |
| 4 | For civil servants , the advantage is that the doctrine leaves them utterly free of any repercussions arising from their advice and thus greatly adds to their freedom and power . |
| 5 | Women are generally less tied to their work and more able to adjust to retirement ( though as more and more women devote great energy and interest to a career , this is changing ) . |
| 6 | We are concerned with people , some of whom are men and some women , and the cognitive differences between them are not easily traced to their gender . |
| 7 | The six who originally slept about 8 hours did not immediately return to their baseline level , and continued to sleep less than they had before , and even a year later they were sleeping 1 to 1.5 hours less than when they started . |
| 8 | He regarded it as essential that men become more deeply committed to their work through the formation of professional/occupational groups , since for them an involvement in the family did not provide a sufficiently sound moral basis for continued existence : ‘ Men must gradually become attached to their occupational or professional life … |
| 9 | Jennie preferred to stay and supervise ; she was always backstage seeing to their make-up : |
| 10 | The authors maintain that the role of women in the Tigrayan society is still closely linked to their status in the feudal system . |
| 11 | It will also consider how the pay of schoolteachers might be more closely related to their performance , in line with the principles of the citizens charter . |
| 12 | For instance , it may be that the rise and fall of certain forms of property crime is more closely related to their profitability than to changes in economic and social structures . |
| 13 | But it also shows that a writer 's verbal art can often be more profitably examined within the narrower scope of a chapter , a page , or even a paragraph , where the stylistic values can be more closely related to their function within a particular context . |
| 14 | As a result , shop stewards have been more closely tied to their work groups , and in several industries created spontaneous , coordinated organisations at factory level to take advantage of increased bargaining opportunities during a period of high economic activity . |
| 15 | As a result , shop stewards have been more closely tied to their work groups , and in several industries created spontaneous , coordinated organisations at factory level to take advantage of increased bargaining opportunities during a period of high economic activity . |
| 16 | In formulating the category ‘ artefact ’ , some notion of intention is also usually attributed to their creation ; for example , a gas cloud may emerge as an unpredicted by-product of a technological process , though this product of human labour is only marginally an artefact . |
| 17 | People 's own occupational level is also strongly related to their level of educational attainment . |
| 18 | The earlier unicellular species were by now well adapted to their environment , and only changed their biochemical functions because of the genetic ‘ errors ’ , the mutations , that periodically occurred . |
| 19 | But Dot had thought it would n't ever happen to their baby . |
| 20 | or saying we could n't really take to their child , |
| 21 | Much of the variation in the items is indeed directly related to their use , but the variability in the design of objects destined for the same function may point to socio-cultural differences . |
| 22 | As with the shares of any quoted company , prices can vary quite substantially according to their supply and demand , which in turn can be determined by a variety of market factors . |
| 23 | Children so treated all too quickly respond to their teacher 's unspoken assumptions . |